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July 15, 2025

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Soltan Petru (b. 1931-06-29 / d. 2016-07-15)

He was a Moldovan mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Petru Soltan was a member of the Mathematical Society of Moldova. Petru Soltan served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (1990–1994) and is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.

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Boisset
Yves Félix Claude. 2025-03-31

86

Born 1939-03-14. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

Yves Félix Claude Boisset was a French film director and screenwriter. His films have been known for their controversial releases, and for his left-wing political views. He sued Arnold Schwarzenegger and 20th Century Fox over The Running Man, which he believed had plagiarized his film Le prix du danger and he won the lawsuit. Yves Boisset died at the age of 86. He had been in hospital care in Levallois-Perret for a few days.

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Allègre
Claude. 2025-01-04

87

Born 1937-03-31. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:Age

Claude Allègre was a French politician and scientist. His work in the field of isotope geochemistry was recognised with the award of many senior medals, including the Crafoord Prize for geosciences in 1986 and the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 1995. His political service included a three-year term as Minister of Education in France, from 1997 to 2000.

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Bloch
Claude. 2023-12-31

95

Born 1928-11-01. Domain:Society. Cause of death:Age

Claude Bloch was a deportee and survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Stutthof concentration camps. Arrested with his mother in June 1944 in Crépieux-la-Pape, Rhône, by Paul Touvier, head of the Lyon militia, he was deported by convoy 77, the last convoy to leave the Drancy camp for Auschwitz. As a survivor of the Shoah, he became a "passeur de mémoire" of the deportation.

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Marx
Claude (alias: Claude Villers). 2023-12-16

79

Born 1944-07-22. Domain:TV/Radio. Cause of death:Age

Claude Villers, whose real name was Claude Marx, was born in Everly (Seine-et-Marne) and died in Mussidan (Dordogne), a French journalist and radio and television personality. He spent most of his radio career at France Inter, where he was successively sketch writer, host and producer. He is also a writer and traveler, with a passion for trains, ocean liners, travel and adventure.

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Nallet
Jean-Claude. 2023-08-20

76

Born 1947-03-15. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Claude Nallet was a French sprinter that competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 400 m hurdles and reached the final in the relay. He won two gold and two silver medals in these events at the European championships of 1969 to 1974. Nallet retired after finishing sixth in the 400 m hurdles at the 1978 European Athletics Championships. He was married to French Olympic gymnast Chantal Seggiaro.

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Sarraute
Claude. 2023-06-20

95

Born 1927-07-24. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

Claude Sarraute was a French writer and journalist and columnist for Le Monde. She was a recurring panelist on the humoristic radio show Les Grosses Têtes between 1984–1995 and from 2014 until her death. She was the daughter of lawyer and novelist Nathalie Sarraute, and lawyer Raymond Sarraute. Her first marriage, with American journalist Stanley Karnow (1925–2013), lasted from 1948 to 1955. She remarried in 1957 to doctor Christophe Tzara (1927–2018), son of Swedish artist Greta Knutson and Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara. They had two sons, Laurent and Martin, and divorced in 1966. In 1967, she was married to Jean-François Revel (1924–2006), philosopher, writer and member of the Académie Française from 1998 on. They had two children, a daughter Véronique (born 1968) and a son Nicolas Revel (born 1966), the former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister Jean Castex.

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Mézières
Jean-Claude. 2022-01-23

83

Born 1938-09-23. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Claude Mézières was a French bandes dessinées artist and illustrator. Born in Paris and raised in Saint-Mandé, he was introduced to drawing by his older brother and influenced by comics artists such as Hergé, Andre Franquin and Morris and later by Jijé and Jack Davis. Educated at the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, he worked upon graduation as an illustrator for books and magazines as well as in advertising. A lifelong interest in the Wild West led him to travel to the United States in 1965 in search of adventure as a cowboy, an experience that would prove influential on his later work. Returning to France, Mézières teamed up with his childhood friend, Pierre Christin, to create Valérian and Laureline, the popular, long-running science fiction comics series for which he is best known and which has proved to be influential to many science fiction and fantasy films, including Star Wars. Mézières contributed as a conceptual designer on several motion picture projects, most notably the 1997 Luc Besson film, The Fifth Element, as well as continuing to work as an illustrator for newspapers, magazines and in advertising. He also taught courses on the production of comics at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis. Mézières received international recognition through a number of prestigious awards, most notably the 1984 Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême.

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Carrière
Jean-Claude. 2021-02-08

89

Born 1931-09-17. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and Academy Award honoree. He was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud and was president of La Fémis, the French state film school. Carrière was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of Buñuel's late French films.

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Bolling
Claude Jean Harry. 2020-12-29

90

Born 1930-04-10. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

Claude Bolling was a French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.

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Espinasse
Claude Pierre (alias: Claude Brasseur). 2020-12-22

84

Born 1936-06-15. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Claude Brasseur was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine as Claude Pierre Espinasse, the son of actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux and grandson of Jules Brasseur. He is the godson of Ernest Hemingway and the father of Alexandre Brasseur. He was a member of the French bobsleigh team in the 60s and also a winning Paris-Dakar rally competitor, as co-pilot of Jacky Ickx. He played the title role in the early 1970s historical crime television series The New Adventures of Vidocq.

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Giraud
Claude. 2020-11-03

84

Born 1936-02-05. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Claude Giraud was a French actor. He gained fame in TV series as hero Morgan/Jacques de Saint-Hermine in the adventure series Les Compagnons de Jéhu by Michel Drach adapted from the eponymous novel by Alexandre Dumas. Bernard Toublanc-Michel engaged him in 1967 for the role of d'Aulnay in Adolphe ou l'âge tendre. The TV series Les rois maudits, where he played the role of Sir Roger Mortimer, was another huge success. In 1973, he played the fictional Arab revolutionary leader Mohamed Larbi Slimane, who poses as Rabbi Zeiligman in The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob with Louis de Funès. In the TV movie Mamie Rose (1976) he played Claude Jade's husband Régis, whose marriage is saved by an au-pair granny played by Gisèle Casadesus.

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0'HAgan
Claudine (alias: Colo Tavernier). 2020-06-13

75

Born 1945-00-00. Domain:Art. Cause of death:Cancer

Claudine "Colo" O'Hagan Tavernier was a British-French screenwriter. Tavernier died from cancer.

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Goasguen
Claude. 2020-05-28

75

Born 1945-03-12. Domain:Politics. Cause of death:COVID

He was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the city of Paris, and was a member of The Republicans. He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux at the age of 75 due to COVID-19.

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Thébaud
Claude (alias: Claude Evrard). 2020-04-20

86

Born 1933-07-29. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:COVID

He was a French actor.

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Oger
Claudine (alias: Claudine Auger). 2019-12-18

78

Born 1941-04-26. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger) was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde (the French representative to the Miss World beauty pageant) and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest. In 1959, she married writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit. They later divorced. She married British businessman Peter Brent in the 1980s. The couple had one child, Jessica Claudine Brent (b. 1991). Peter Brent died in August 2008. Auger died in Paris following a lengthy illness.

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Bouttier
Jean-Claude. 2019-08-03

74

Born 1944-10-13. Domain:Sport. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Claude Bouttier was a French actor and professional boxer. During his boxing career, which spanned from 1965 to 1974, he won 64 out of 72 bouts, 43 of them by knockout. In June 1971 he won the European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title, and in 1972 and 1973 unsuccessfully contested the WBC and WBA titles against Carlos Monzon. He lost the EBU title to Kevin Finnegan in May 1974. Bouttier started his film career by playing himself in TV series, while still boxing. His later roles involved proper acting, such as Philippe Rouget in Les Uns et les Autres. Since 1984, he worked as a sports commentator for Canal+.

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Lanzmann
Claude. 2018-07-05

92

Born 1925-11-27. Domain:Directing. Cause of death:Age

Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985). He died at his Paris home, after having been ill for several days.

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Luypaerts
Claudine (alias: Maurane). 2018-05-07

57

Born 1960-11-12. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Heart attack

Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress. Maurane was found dead at the age of 57 beside her bath at her home in Schaerbeek in the area of Brussels, Belgium. The following day, the magistrate of the Brussels public prosecutor's office confirms the opening of a judicial inquiry, although the death of the singer is not considered as suspect. The first conclusions point to a probable heart attack.

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Servan-Schreiber
Jean-Claude. 2018-04-11

100

Born 1918-04-11. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber was a French journalist and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1965 to 1967, representing Seine. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, a center-right political party. He died on April 11, 2018 in Paris on his 100th birthday.

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Lattès
Jean-Claude. 2018-01-27

76

Born 1941-09-03. Domain:Business. Cause of death:Age

He was the founder of editions Jean-Claude Lattès.

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McLaughlin
Joyce Rogers. 2017-10-23

78

Born 1939-10-08. Domain:Science (Math style). Cause of death:Age

She was an American mathematician, the Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests were primarily in applied mathematics, and in particular in inverse problems.

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Bouillon
Jean-Claude. 2017-07-31

75

Born 1941-12-27. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:cancer (colorectal)

He was a French actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1966 until 2015. Les brigades du tigre.

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Rich
Claude. 2017-07-20

88

Born 1929-02-08. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French stage and screen actor. He began his career in the theater before his film debut in 1955.

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Sachot
Jean-Claude. 2017-03-13

72

Born 1944-10-25. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French actor. He was active in theater where he was also a director, as well as in cinema, television and dubbing. He is known in animation for being the voice of Commissioner James "Jim" Gordon in most animated films and series as well as in Batman video games.

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Steiner
Claude Michel. 2017-01-09

82

Born 1935-01-06. Domain:Science (Medical/Bio style). Cause of death:Age

He was a French-born American psychotherapist and writer who wrote extensively about transactional analysis (TA). His writings focused especially on life scripts, alcoholism, emotional literacy, and interpersonal power plays. In the 1970s and '80s, Steiner was a founder and practitioner of Radical Psychiatry, a new approach to psychotherapy based in a social theory (of alienation) rather than a medical one (of individual pathology). Influenced by progressive movements of the time, work in this modality continues into the present and is gaining recent recognition worldwide. He was also considered the originator of the theory called Stroke Economy.

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Gensac
Claude. 2016-12-27

89

Born 1927-03-01. Domain:Performing. Cause of death:Age

She was a French actress. She appeared in more than 70 films and television productions since 1952. Gensac is the oldest nominee to date in the category César Award for Best Supporting Actress, nominated in 2015 for her role as Marthe in the film Lulu femme nue. Claude Gensac was married twice: from 1952 to 1954 with the actor Pierre Mondy and from 1958 to 1977 with Henri Chemin, a racer and PR Manager of Ford France with whom she had a son. She died in her sleep.

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Breitman
Claude (alias: Jean-Claude Deret). 2016-12-12

95

Born 1921-07-11. Domain:Writing. Cause of death:Age

He was a French television writer, songwriter, actor, playwright, and author of children's books and detective novels. Deret started his career as a songwriter and singer in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the late 1940s. By 1950, he emigrated to Quebec, where he became a theatre and television actor. Nine years later, in 1959, he returned to France and within a few years he created Thierry la Fronde, a television series. Between 1963 and 1966, he wrote 52 episodes.

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Imbert
Claude. 2016-11-23

87

Born 1929-11-12. Domain:Journalism. Cause of death:Age

Founder of newspaper Le Point.

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Risset
Jean-Claude. 2016-11-21

78

Born 1938-03-13. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He was a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. Risset was a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs.

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Putman
Claude (alias: Curly Putman). 2016-10-30

85

Born 1930-11-20. Domain:Music. Cause of death:Age

He was an American songwriter. Putman died of congestive heart failure and kidney failure at his home in Lebanon, Tennessee at age 85.

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